4 . NOW FIUST The Pennycomequicks Written for THE DISPATCH by- S. BARING GOULD, Aothoror'Mr.iiAi,AH,""CouBTEoYAi.,""JonNHEBKiNG," "TheGatxbocks'Eto ALL RIGHTS CHAPTER XLV1I. Edelweiss. Philip could not sleep during the night that followed the expedition to the Ober Alp. His mind was occupied with what he bad beard. Ho thought of the poor girl, sold by her moth er; of her rude apprenticeship, of the risks she had undergone; beautiful, young, attractive. He tossed in his bed. What would become of lierT Could she stand exposed to the dangers that beset her, and not, as she half threatened, throw herself overt What could be done lor hert She had spoken of the freedom of her life as giving zest to existence, but too great freedom may pall; it had palled on the girl, and she had put up her hands, pleading to be fitted with light but strong manacles. What a contrast was to be found between his life and hers! He had been cramped and hedged about with re strictions: she bad enjoyed an excess of liberty. Virtue, says Aristotle, Is to be found In a happy medium, and not virtue only, but the plenitude and manifoldness of life can only unfurl itself in a bappy medium between excess of freedom and oppressive restriction. Philip was and ever had been conscious that his abilities had not been allowed dne expansion in the career Into which he had been squeezed; and this American girl, tilth doubtless splendid capa bilities of mind and heart, had allowed them to run riot and dissipate their fragrance in untu tored independence. When she fixed her great dark eyes on him. what a thrill passed through him! and when she took his band, fire ran up his veins, and broke into a blaze in his heart. What could he do for herT Hon was it possible for him to assist hcrT to be to her the wise friend she desired? It he had made her acquaintance two years ago it would have been another matter, he would have thrown himself at her feet metaphorically, of course and asked her to take bim as her guide, protector, and friend, to tie up her future with his, and so each would have contributed something to the other to make up what each lacked. Then what a different sort of life his would have been! His present mode of existence was similar, only better in quality, to that he had led before: one had been a sordid drudgery, the present was a gilded drudgery. The difference was in the adjective that qualified, not in the substance of which the stuff of his life was made up. He had now to devote the same at tention to figures and technicalities and details as before. The figures, technicalities details were formerly relative to conveyancing, they now concerned linen manufacture. Such acquaintances as he had formed at Notting ham had not been interested in much beyond their business, and the acquaintance he had formed at Mergatroyd had their interests con centrated on their business. Art, literature, science had been to those be knew at Notting ham, and were to those hoknev at Mergatroyd, names, not ideas. Was life worth living in such surrouudings, tied to such a routiner It is said that man as he gets older fossilizes, the cur rents of his blood choke the arteries, veins, ves tels of heart and brain, till like furred water pipes and crusted boilers they can no longer act. But as not tbe life to which be was con demned, with its monotony, its constraint, its isolation from the current of intellectual life a mechanizing of man? Philip knew that he was losing, had lost, much of his individu ality, almost all tbe spontaneity that bad been lodged in him by the Creator, and was grow ing more and more into a machine, like his spinning jennies and steam looms. He thought of Salome. Had she many ideas outside the round of ordinary life? Was she not an ennobled, sweeter lodging-house keeper? She had been well educated, but her mind did not naturally soar into tbe ideal world. It went up, spas modically, like the grasshopper, a little way, A SURYEY OF TEADE. An Overdose of Everything in Fruit and Vegetable Lines. VOLUME LARGE, PROFITS SHALL Corn and Oats Scarce and Higher, Patent Flours Steady. BUFF AIDES OFFHEAVY HIDES FIEM OFFICE OF PlTTfiRURC DISPATCH, ) Saturday. July 13, 1889. The week lias been one of abundance and low prices in all seasonable fruits and vege tables. Raspberries, blackberries and whortleberries have been at their best, and another week will bring them close to their end of the season. Potntoes touched bed rock at the beginning of tbe week, the best having sold as low as $1 50 per barrel. Low prices brought active demand, and markets are firmer to-day with a range of Jl 25 to $1 75. It lias not been a good week for speculation in vegetables. Low prices tempted many to in vest in potatoes who now wish they had not. One ppeculator who bought a carload of Ten nessee rose at SI 40, was glad to unload at tl. Two such abundant seasons as this and last have been furnish little comfort to specula tors. Nature is so generous in her contributions that the man who seeks to corner the products of the earth is left every time. Said one of our leading Liberty street merchants: "We have had the best week on record so far as volume of trade Is concerned. My sales of potatoes have averaged 500 barrels dally all the week, and on one day I reached S00 barrels. "1 have been in various ways connected with the produce trade of Pittsburg for almost a third of a century, and this week has been my best so far as volume ot trade is concerned, I never before sold as much stuff in the same time, and, while margins are not as big as in former years, and we have been forced to handle a large amount at small profits, we are entirely satisfied with onr week's work." An- muer icaaing commission merchant said: "Our trade for tbe week has been good. We have had a little too much of everything this week, and, though producers have not reaped much profit for time, labor and trouble, wo have not iften handled as much stuff in the same length of time, and the week clo-es with everything well cleaned up. Any amountof potatoes have been handled during tbe past week, which paid no more than freight and commission." Cerenla. The marked features of trade the past week were the great scarcity of corn and oats and the upward drift of flour. Tbe demand for ear corn and choice oats has been far beyond sup ply, and prices have been steadily going up. Wheat has had a fall of 5c in the past day or two. Flour, however, cannot be laid down at any lower ligcrcs than aweek ago. Said a leading grain ooerator. "values of grain arc firm and receipts are light. It is ut terly impossible to secure enough ear corn and choice oats to meet demand. I would only he too happy if I could get all the stuff in these lines I want," Groceries. Green coffee showed signs of weakness at the beginning of the week, hut in the past few days the tide has turned the other way. An advance of 100 points for the week is reported from the East. Package coffee remains un changed, bnt a rise cannot be far away from present outlook. Tbe only question is whether the upward movement of options is specula tive or not. Time will soon telL Sugars, which for many weeks have teen tending upwari have at last come to a standstill on account of bearish news from .Europe. For the first time in many weeks sugar gives signs of weakness. , Hide. Heavy steer bides of July take-off are firm at a. slight advance on old rates. Quality is stead ily improving, as it always does at this time of the year, and will until tbe middle of October. The hair on hides Is short and accumulates least of dirt in tbe summer and early fall month;. The late advance in buff hides has not been maintained. Prices have drifted back to the old figure. Calfskins are duller than ever, with 5 cents as tbe outside rate. Sheep and "lamb skins are in good demand at better rjriees than any time this season. Below is scale of I PUBLIbHED.l RESERVED. and was down on its feet again directly. She was interested in her baby, anxious to have' her house neat, tbe cobn ebs all away, tbe linen in perfect order, all the towels marked and num bered, the servants m thorough activity, the quotients for the cake and pudding measured in scales, not guessed. She was devoted to her flowers also be recollected tbe hyacinths, and certainly they bad filled his room with fragrance and anticipation of spring. Bnt he had sent her to sleep by reading aloud Addison's "Spec tator," and when he tired "Shakespere" he found that she bad no Insight into the charac ters, and accepted the beauties rather than seized on them. What, Philip asked with a tremor, what If he had never met Salome, aud bad met Arte misia! Then, indeed, ho would have been transported on strong wings out of tbe world of commonplace, and tbe sound of common talk, and the murky atmosphere of vulgar in terests. Into a region where he would have shaken off his half acquired habits of formal ity, bis shyness, his cumhrousnesa and angu larity, and become light-hearted, easy and in dependent. In dreams we sometimes imagine ourselves to he flying: we rise from tbe ground and labor indefatigably with our arms as wings; and Philip was now dreaming, though not asleep, fancying that he conld part with some of his gravity and by an effort maintain himself in another sphere. He bad missed bis way In life; be was never designed to become a piece of clockwork, but to enjoy life, seize It with both hands and hold it fast and drink tbe mingled cup to the dregs, crownea with roses. Hitherto be had not suspected that the blood in his arteries was an effervescing wine; he had supposed it very still. What was to be done for Artemisia? It would be Inhuman, not to be reconciled with con science, to turn away, to cast her off, when she entreated him to be ber friend and help her with counsel. But how could he assist her? A drowning, despairing girl cried out for help. Could he suffer her to sink? Had he not prom ised her his assistance? "I am positively determined," said Mrs. Side bottom next day, "that we shall go to-morrow to the hospice. I want tn see it, and the dogs, and tbe scenery. So I have ordered carriages, and what is more, we will stay there a day or two; then, such as like, can descend the Val Tremola, and such as like can climb the Pizzo Centrale." "I have no objection," answered Salome. "We must not leave Andermatt till we have been over the pass and seen the beauties or terrors of the further side. What do say, Philip?" "I shall be glad." He stood up from the table. "Where are you going, Philipf ' To Miss Durham, to invite her to join us." "Of course." said Mrs. Sidebottom. "Let me see, wc are eight. "Oh! it won't matter, one of the girls can sit outside. The drivers always walk going up hill, so that there will be five in one carriage, and five in the other. And Miss Dnrham will pay her share. Beside, it there is any climbing and excursioning to be done be will pay half of a guide." But strange caprice in Salome, she put her hand on Philip's arm, and said, in a low tone,1 "No! Philip; no!" Philip looked at her with surprise. Why should she not wish the American lady to join the party? She was her friend. She had been so desirous that he and Miss Durham should conclude peace, and now that peace was agreed upon, Salome said, "No! Philip, no!" when he proposed to invite the Chicago girl to join them. How capricious! How unreasonable Salome was. She forms a wish, he hastens to accord it, and lo! she hangs back and is dissat isfied. His aunt's favorite expression, "Fiddlestick prices as adopted by leading tanners and hide dealers of Pittsburg and Allf gheny City: Vo. I green salted stee'rs. 60'pourids and 'i over t X No. 1 green salted cows, all weights S No. 1 green sailed hides. 40 to 00 pounds.. 6 No. 1 green silted hides, 2S to 40 pounds.. 5 No. 1 green salted bulls 4V No. 1 grt.cn 6alted calfskins iX No. 1 green salted eal kips 4J4 No. 1 green salted runner kips. 3 No. 1 green steers, SO pounds and over.... 7 No. 1 green cows, all weights 4J4 jso. 1 green bulls 4 No. 1 green hides, 40to60pounds 4X No. 1 greeu hides, 25 to 40 pounds 4K No. I green calfitklna 5 No. 1 green veal kips 4 o. 1 green runner Kips 3 btafepskins 15 075 Tallow, prime i'4 TOO HOT TO HUSTLE. Effects of Torrid Temperature Felt In Many Lines of Trade. Hot weather may be a blessing, but it should be taken in small doses and in tbe shade. It was too much for the hustlers last week, and tbe result was an apathetic feel ing in business circles and a comparatively small volume of transactions, although con siderably larger than for the-corrcsponding time in 1883. Stocks and petroleum were featureless, and closed at declines from the opening. The total sales of stock reported were 3,793 shares, of which Electric con tributed 2,000. The number of mortgages recorded was 1C4, representing 389,889. This is a slight decrease in cumber from the previous week, but a gain in amount Beal estate main tained its customary activity. The number of transfers recorded was 206, involving $727,902. Jobbers reported a large trade in seasonable goods. Tbe close was characterized by a cheer ful and hopeful feeling all round. The future of real estate in Pittsburg Is a most interesting subject to all who give thought to it. A great deal of money has been made by the immense advance in values in the last ten years. The movement has been stead ily upward since 1879, when tbe Iron trade re vived. That great advances will also take placo in the future no one doubts, but where to look for them is the important Question, as to-whicb any ten persons would be liable to give as many different opinions. One or the sections from which great things were expected was Fifth avenue extension, be tween the Court House and Soho. When talk favored the cutting down of tbe "hump" prospects looked bright for speculation out there. After the "hump" project 'fell through there was a period of dullness. Now, however, activity is again apparent in that quarter not in sales, but In improvements. A better class of stores Is being established along the avenue. They look also as if they have come prepared to do business. In the ten to twenty thousand people the cable line carries dally they will doubtless find abundant custom later on. Property on Fifth avenue extension ranges from about $100 per foot near the Court House to about $150 per foot beyond the market house. There was only one transaction at tbe stock call Saturday, tbat of 100 shares of La Noria at a decline. Electric was offered at SO, with 48 bid. Holders of it are not anxious to sell at present quotations. Philadelphia Gas conld have been bought at S6 Tbe best hid was 3C. Pittsburg and Western common was offered at 13, with 12 bid; for the preferred 20 was tbe best figure that could have been obtained. There is said to he' a quiet buying movement in tbts stock; on tbe strength of bet ter management and increased earnings, which will cause some surprise later on. The Tractions were weak. Central being of fered at 31; for Citizens' GS was bid. Pitts burg was neglected. Nobody wanted Pleasant Valley or Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manches ter. Cheap lots of any of these, however, would not have gone a-begging. There was a good demand for bank and Insurance stocks, but orders were below tho market. There was no change in conditions, and .no news to affect values, which, with two or three exceptions, were well sustained throughout tho week. The following table Jhowsthe prlcesof active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Corrected daily for The-Dispatch by Whit ney A Stephenson, members of New York Stock Exchange, 57 Fourth avenue: en os-Open- Hlgn- Low inr ' .. . . i- !- eat. Jlldi. Am. Cotton On Ulf KH t3i UH ends!" rose to his lips. He was not the man to be turned away by the wayward, unreasoned fancies of his wife. "Why not?" he asked. But Salome gave him no answer. She bad formed no motive In her heart for asking him not to invite Miss Durham; she had not con sidered a reason. She reddened to tbe roots of her bair, but neither gave a reason nor repeated her request. There lingered all that day a little something, a dissonance of mood between Philip and Sa lome: neither conld account for it. He was silent; be wandered about the hotel and tbe grounds with a hope to light on Miss Durham. He did not go Into the salle or on the terrace, Into the reading room, or about the garden searching for ber. He did not ask tbe waiters where she was, but be looked about wherever be went, expecting to tee her, and when he found her not in reading room or salle, on ter race or in garden, ho felt that tbe place was uninteresting, and he must perforce go else where. Salome was gentle, as usual, spending much time with her baby, showing it to those guests who were so gracious as to notice it,and smiling with pleasnre when it was admired; but she was not herself, not as happy as she had been. Hitherto the only jar to her content washer husband's prejudice against Artemisia; now tbe jar arose she did not explain to herself bow it arose, but she wished that Philip had not gone so far in his change of sentiment. Yet with her natural modesty and shrinking from blame casting, she reproached herself for grudging to her friend that friendship which she had her self invited Philip to bestow. The next day was lovely, with a cloudless sky, and the carriages departed. Some grum bling ensued and bad to be resisted, on the part of the drivers, Decause five persons were crammed into one carriage. Mrs. Sidebottom pointed out that tbe driver would walk. That was true, was tbe reply, but not till Hospenthal was reached; moreover, the horses could not draw more than four up the St. Qottbard road to the Hospice. There was still snow over a considerable tract; however, at length the dif ference was overcome by the promise of a small extra payment two and a half francs extra threw such energy into the horses, increased their pon er of traction so they co nsented for that pnee to draw five Instead of four persons up the ascent from Hospenthal to the Hospice. In one carriage, that in front, sat Mrs. Sidebot tom, Janet and the Captain, and one of the girls, tbe youngest. In the other carriage were Salome and Miss Durham, Philip and the two other Labarte girls. But Philip did not remain long in It: at tbe steep ascent above the little picturesque clus ter of houses, church and castle that consti tute Hospenthal, be get out and walked. The banks were overgrown with the Alpine rhododendron, as flames bursting out of the low olive green bushes, and Philip hastened to pick bunches for the ladies. By a singnlar chance the best flowers and those best ar ranged went to Miss Durham. "See dere?" said the driver, taking off bis hat. "Vot Ishdat? Dat is Edelweiss. You shee?" He held his dirty brown cap to Philip and showed him a tuft of white flowers as though made out of wool. Philip had never seen the like before. "Are these found here, in these mountains?" "Jawohl! round here. Up.hlgh! Sheer' The man pointed with his whip to the rocky heights. "She grow up very high, dat vlower you give to your loaf I" "Loafr" "Jawohl!" The man winked, put his band to his heart. "To your loaf shatzl You under-shtand-" Philip flushed dark. He was hot with walk ing. "Let me have some of that flower. You shall have it back. No, thank you, not your hat." The man pulled the blossoms ont from the dirty ribbon that retained them. "Dey is dry. But you should shee when dey fresh." Philip took tbe little flowers to tbe side of tbe carriage. "Look ,at these," he said. "The man calls them no I cannot say the name." "Edelweiss," said Salome. "I have sen It dried In tbe shop windows. It is rare." "Edelweiss means tbe noble white flower," said Miss Durham. "It grows far from human habitation, and is mcch sought after. I have never found it myself, and never had any fresh picked given to me." 3SK St S3 UW 34H M 100X eX 108 S3 11 32M K 1073 1 29 " 1439a lun 45). 10X 73 113 I7K SZ V&H 69J 13 10 69 10S 26j (A It 09 MM fX 17H 14 SI s S3 S2V 32 46K 184 23X 79 2SX 56J 110 19 5S!4 15 29H S4 6SH 1I0H 24 67 32X ios" 1H 1U 2ZX tin" a" 145K III 17 SS4 103 687a 13 esM ios H 103t 69k 13 106 1S MX 17 h" S7J 64 Htf S3 32W 46 Wit as 79H ii" MX H'x Si esx 49 15X si" 27 63jJ 22 32V ZV4 45 184tf 23!4 79 a" 19" S7K 28 MH 6HH 58 W CloalneBond Qaotntloni. II. s. 4crez ....128;m. K. 41. Gen. 5s , U. 8. 4a. coup 129MI Mutual Union 6s u. s. 4X reg iwx V. 8. 4,s. coup 10SX raclltc6of'9o. 118 IxralalanastanipedU.89 Missouri 6s 100 lenn. new set. 6.1....10G N. J.C. Int. Cert. Northern l'ac lsts Northern l'ac 2da Northwn rnnKnla.lM' N'orthw'n dehen-..114 Oregon ft Trans. 6a. 105 lenn. new set. SS....102M SUL. &I.M. Uen. 5a 86 St. I-.tb.K. Gen.M.118 Su Paul consols ....126U SUM. Chi ft-fclsts.118 Tx., PcL. O.Tx Bs. SX Tx..Pc.K.O.iy.Kcts 36 lenn. newset.as.... n Canada So. 2di WM On. Pacific, lsts 114 Den. ft K. Q., HU...m Den. ft It. (). 4s n D.ftU.a.West,lsts. 100 Eric, 2da 102M il.li.4T.Qen. 6a.. 63 union l'ac. lsti...117V West bhore aoo). Philadelphia Htoclca. Closing quotation, of Philadelphia stocks, fur nished by Whitney ft Stephenson, brokers. No. 57 Fourth avenue. Members New York stock Ex change. BM. Asked. Pennsylvania Uallroad ttx 51 H Beading 29 MS Lehigh Valley MX 63 M Lehigh Navigation an ax Nortnern Pacific...... SX W Boston Ateb. ft Toe. lit 7.. 116 Stocks. wis. Central pf.... AllouezMgCo(new), Calumet ft Hecla.... Krantlin Osceola. Pewabtc tnew) Uol.ncT Bell Telephone Bo.lonLand W aler Power .8 207 9 2S s as A.&T. LandOr't7s.l03X Attn. ftToD. IC H... ssl Ho.tou ft Albany,. .216 Boston ft uaise.....i C. IS. ft (J. 100 Eastern R. B 99!i Fnnt.tPereM. nfd. 97 Mexican cen. com.. KX Mex.u.lstmtg. dqs. u. N. y. ANewnc... SOX N. Y. &N.E.7S....128J4 Wls.Centnu.com... 23 Tamarack San Diego Saturday's Oil Ranee. Corrected dally by John M. Oaciey A Co., 45 Sixth' street, members of the Pittsburg Petro leum Exchange. Opened , 91 VI Lowest tilf Highest 91,1 Closed si4 Barrels. Average runs 51,956 Average shipments 7S.022 Average charters. 65,181 Refined, New York, 7.20c. Krnnc-, London, 5Vd. Befined, Antwerp. 17f. Befined. Liverpool, C3-1M. A. a. McOrew & Co. quote: Putt, WJic; calls, 82H92c. , Wool Markets. St. Louis Receipts to-day, 420,018 pounds; the market showed no material change dnrlng tbe week, continuing quiet and steady; prices are unchanged. Toledo Cloverseed quiet; cash, $4 60;. Octo ber, ,eo. Ateb.. Top. & S.F.... SSVf Canadian faciflc. ...... w?i Canadatfouthera....... 53 Central of Hew Jersey.lll Central Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio.... HW C Bur. ft Ouli.cr..... 09"4 C, Mil. & Bt. Jfaul.... CSX C J111.& Bt. P., pr....l07 C KockL 1' 11)4 C M. L. & Flits C St. P..M. &U 32X C &t. P..M. AO.. pr. .... 0. ft Northwestern.... 107 Cft Northwestern, pr. .... Col. Coal ft Iron 29M Col. ft llocklug Vat Del.. L. 4W 14554 Del. ft Uudaon MX Denver ft Bio U.. ni E.T.. Va. ftUa .... E.T.,Va. &Oa. 1st pf. .... E. T Va. ft Oa. Zd pr. .... lllinoia Central Lake Erin ft Western.. 17 Lake Erie ft West. Dr.. E8H' Lake Snore ft M. S 103H Louisville ft Nashville. to!4 Mobile ft Ohio 13 lo., K. ft Texas Missouri facine M New York Central 106 N. V.. L. E. ft V Xii N.V.. L E. V., pref .... N. V.. C. A St. L IS N. r ix ft St. L. nr. N.V.. C. Abt.L.Zd nf .... N. VAN. SO N. V.. O. ft V 17 Norfolk a Weitern -Norfolk Western. ct. SI Northern Paclne 27,'i Nortnern faclflc oref. C4 Ohio ft MIulMlppl SSX Oregon Improvement. .. . Oregon Tranacon 323( FacincMall S2'i 1'hllade). ft Beading.. 6H rullman 1'alace Car. ..1S4H Richmond ft V. V. .. 233$ Kichmond ft W.I'.T.pI TtX tic L. ft San Fran .-. St. L. ft 8an Fran pr.. 57 St.L. ft San IT. lit pf.. ... Texas X'aclne 19 Union I'acinc tTi W'abasn Wabash preferred 29H Western Union MM Wheeling ft L. -.... es Sugar Trust 109 National Lead Trust.. 23 Chicago Gat Trust 56 3 3S 37X 53H 63 USX in tli soji loav ot) 69H 6S!i 10X 17 83M 93 "Would you like some?" asked Philip.. "Very much Indeed," answered Artemisia. "If it be possible to get any, you shall have It," he said. Then be walked on. The fore carriage was stopped, sndMrs Side bottom was descending with Claudine Labarte, whom she had persuaded to get out with her and pick flowers, thus leaving the Captain and Janet by themselves. "Before long," said Mrs. Sidebottom, "we shall be beyond the line where flowers grow, so we must make the best of our opportunity now. Miss Labarte." Then Mrs. Sidebottom fell back to where Philip was and took his arm, and pressed it, looked up at him humorously and said: "I have a bit of news to tell you. He is going to propose. That Is why Ihavo got Felicite out of the carriage." "Who, Lambert?" "Lambert, of course. Not tbe driver. And to J anet. Have you not seen It coming?" "But perhaps she will not have htm." "Fiddlestick ends! Of course she wilL Don't you see that she likes him, and has been draw ing him on. Beside, I sounded her. The only dfficulty is about Salome." "How can she be a difficulty?" "Oh. she may think It too soon for them to got married when Mrs. Cusworth died so re cently." "Then they can postpone the marriage." . "Fiddlefaddle! Of course not Always strike while the iron is hot. That is Edelweiss In yoar band, is it? Ob, could you manage to find or get a man to find some quite fresh, for Lambert to present to Janet? It is the correct thing in the Alps. The graceful accompani ment of a declaration." "I will try. to get some," said Philip. "Lambert, you see, will be too much engaged with Janet to go far himself: besides, be is not able to take great exertion. Climbing has a deteriorating effect on the trouser-knees.lt makes them baggy. You will get him some?" "I will go searching for Edelweiss when we reach the Hospice," said Philip. To himself he muttered, "But not for LambertandJanet." CHAPTER XLVLTL Trapped. For the last hour of the ascent the carriages passed through snow, not continuous, but be tween wal's cut in the avalanches and drifts that bad formed in the basins. The air was cold. The ground was so wet through melted snow that Philip and Mrs. Sidebottom and Mdlle. Labarte were obliged to ride. The walls of snow had fallen in here and there, so that tho horses were obliged to Sounder through. The scenery was bleak and wintery. The ladles shivered. At length the lake was reached in which the Reuss has its source, and a little beyond it the roofs ot tbe hospice and the inn were visible. In ten minutes the shivering party was assembled in tbe salle-a-manger, which was heated, and was ordering dinner. The monks have been banished for many years, and the hospice let by the Canton of Tessin to an innkeeper of Alrolo, who with his .worthy wife and family have been in no way inferior in hospitality. In care for the poor travelers, and In providing for the comforts of the rich than were the Brothers of old. SIgnora Lombard), stout, hale and smiling, was in tbe hospice, exerting all her energies to get food ready for tbe large party that bad come In. Wines the best of North Italy were to be had, and veal in various form?; but al ways veal, call it what you will. "Oh! my goodness, gracious mcP cried Mrs. -SldeDottom. "there is a dog a Mount St. Ber nard dog! Ob! the size! the beauty! It must become the rage. Why I have heard of more than 200 being given for a tulip, and what would not be given tor Such a dog as this and with pulmonary complaint too, that develops on the plains." "You do not mean to say, aunt, that you are going to invest in shares In the Beaple Yeo dog-breeding establishment?" said Philip satirically. "Colonel Yeo are you speaking about?" In terrupted Miss Dnrham, eagerly. "Do tell me do you think he will establish his claims to the title ot Schofield?" "He can establish his title to that name whenever he pleases," said Philip, "and once more, if you have any regard for our feelings, you will not mention that person again in our bearing. Oh! here in this' glass on the table are some draggled specimens of the white fluffy flower you call Edelweiss. Perhaps our landlady, SIgnora Lombard!, will tell us if it DOMESTIC - MARKETS. Potatoes Are Firmer Eggs Steady Country Butter Weak. SEASONABLE UERRIES ABDNDAHT. Corn and Oats Easier Cereal Eeceipts .Above Last Week, COFFEE OPTIONS STILL BISING Office or Pittsburg Dispatch, 1 Saturday; July 13. 18S9. Country Produce Jobbing Prices. The movement of eggs, cheese and creamery butter was unusually active yesterday. Coun try butter is slow at nominal prices, a result of extra pasturage. Lemons and oranges are firm at an advance in rates. Potatoes are a shade firmer than they have been for a week past. All berries in season are in full supply. The housewife who aims to lay up In store for win ter, raspberry jam. must needs be active, as the season's goal Is nearly here. Apples coming to markets are scarcely up In quality to those re ceived in the early part of the week. The week's trade in produce lines has been large, especially in lines of potatoes, cabbage, toma toes and onions. As to profits, only they who have sold on commission have reaped any har vests from the week's trade. Speculators who ventured on potato deals on account of low prices have found little to encouraga them in this week's deals, and the one who comes out even is lucky. Butter Creamery, Elgin, 1819c; Ohio do, 1718c; fresh dairy packed, 12013c; country rolls, I012c Beaks SI 751 90. Beeswax-2$S0c a for choice; lowgrade, 1820c. Cider Sand refined, $6 507 SO; common, S3 G04 00; crab elder, S3 008 0 $ barrel; cider vinegar, 1012c gallon. CHEESE-Ohio. 8Kc; New York, IOQIOHc; Limburger, 89c; domestic Sweitzer, B)c 12Kc: imported Sweitzer, 22Kc California Fruits California peaches, $4 C0i 50 V box; cherries, J3 00; apricots, $4 00 4 50; plums, $4 004 60. Eggs 15Kl6c y dozen for strictly fresh: goose, 30c dozen. Fruits Apples. 2 003 00 ?? barrel: pine apples, tl 00Q1 2S ifl dozen; red raspberries. 10 12c ! quart: black raspberries, 5fi8c ffl quart; whortleberrles,.75cfl 00 fl pall; blackberries, 68c quart; wild goose plums, 12 50 crate; currants. $5 v1 2-busbel stand: watermelons. J15 00630 00 $ hundred. , Feathers Extra live geese, 5080c; No. L do, 404ou; mixed lots, 3035c ? ft. New Potatoes SI 251 75 barrel. Poultry Live chickens, SOigOOc pair; undrawn chickens, 10012c ft; drawn, 1415c ip ft. SEEDS Clover, choice, ISS fts to bushel, $5 60 H bushel; clover, large English, 62 lis. S6 00; clover. Alsike. S8 50; clover, white, $9 CO; timo thy, choice, 45 fts. Jl 65: blue grass extra clean. 14 ft. 90c: blue grass, fancy, 14 ft, SI 00; orchard crass, 14 Bs. 81 63; red top, 14 fts. SI 25; millet, 50 fts. SI 00; German Millett, 60 fts. SI 60; Hungarian grass, 60 fts. Jl CO; lawn cras, mixture of fine grasses, $2 50 9 bushel of 14 fts. Tallow Country, 45c; city rendered, 5 6Jc Tropical Fruits Lemons, fancy. Ji00 5 50 V box; Messina oranges, S5 005 60 V Iox; rodl. $4 5005 00; California oranges. 4 mil 75 fl box; bananas, S2 50 firsts. SI 50 good seconds, '(1 bunch; cocoanuts. 14 001 60 W hundred: new fig's, 8K6c f ft; dates. 5K6Kc V Vegetables Tomatoes, Mlssissippls, four basket cases 1 Cl 75; beans, round wax f anfcy, S2 50 ?! crate; beans, round wax medium, 12 00 1 crate: beans, round green, J2 2502 60; new beef, 202oc dozen; cucumbers, 75c SI 00 V bushel hox; radishes, large white and gray, 3035c VI dozen; cabbage, two-barrel crates. Louisville and St. Louis, SI 602 00; Eastern, single barrel crates, SI 00I 25; new celery, 6060c p dozen. Groceries. Coffee options are still on the upward drift, and a rise of 25 points was reported from New York yesterday. Packages are unchanged, but from present appearances will go up higher in a day or two. Sugars are not so firm, and late advices from foreign shores are of a bearish order. ' Green Coffee Fancy Bio, 21922c; choice grew near this inn." "Oh. Sjgnor." answered the stout woman, "it is to be found by the searchers, hut I have never discovered it. I am too fat to climb, and besides my day for Edelweiss is over.' Bhe laughed and shook her sides as though she had made a good joke. "I leave tbe Edelweiss to the yonng people." Her eye rested with a sly twinkle, first on the Captain and Janet, about whom there could be no doubt, and then on Philip and her eye hesitated a moment be tween Salome aud Artemisia and then rested on the latter. Philip looked uneasily out of tbe little window at the bleak outer world. When dinner was finished the afternoon was advauced. Philip went out in front of the inn, on the platform of rock npon which it is built. Some of the ladies talked of taking a stroll to the head of the Val Tremola, hut deteimin'ed not to go far; they would reserve their strength for the ensuing day. He did not volunteer to accompany them. He had another scheme in his head. Outside the inn was a gnide loung ing about, Bmoking and calling to such as passed in the road. Philip signed to him that he desired to speak to him. and the man came to him with alacrity, bnt shook his head and pointed to one of the snowpeaks. He could speak only Italian and Philip only English. They were obliged to converse in dumb show. Philip showed him the flower of Edelweiss he had brought from the table Inside. The man nodded his head. Philip raited his eyebrows in note of query and pointed to the rocks around. "SI! sir' answered tbe man, shaking bis head like a poised China mandarin. "All about there? anywhere?" asked Philip, speaking very loud, as though by loudness be could make the man comprehend. "Oh! if it is anywhere I can find it easily." The man shook his head and again pointed to a snow peak over which a film of cloud was forming, then being blown away, then forming again. "Do you mean that it is not out there?" asked Philip. "I knew that as well as you. There are only ice and snow yonder. Bless my soul, what idiots these men are I" Then be went back into the inn to equip him self with gaiters and strong boots, and to fetch his stick, with a chamois horn for a handle, that he had bought. Whilst be was engaged fastening his 'leggings, be heard the voices of the young ladles outside the house. They were starting for a walk. Presently he descended from his room and studied the map of the dis trict, suspended in tbe salle, till he thought he had it well impressed on his brain, after which he sallied forth. The guide was no longer out side. Tbe afternoon was verging to a close, and no one would be likely to require his ser vices, he supposed; consequently he badretirod to tbe lower room of the hospice on a level with the road, where the drivers and carriers, the guides and peasants were regaled with sour wine. Philip was relieved to see that the fellow was no longer there. He might have wanted to come with him and show him the way, and it would have been Irksome to trudge beside a man with whom it was not possible to con verse; besides. Edelweiss was to be found everywhere. Madam Lombard! had said, if looked for on the rocks. Those guides made difficulties about finding it, so as to induce the uninitiated and easily persuaded to engage them to direct them to spots where it grew. Philip resolved to go by himself. He would not go far, he could not lose his way; there were no yawning chasms down which he might tumble that he could see, and avalanches, be was told, fell In the early spring. He must do some climbing, of course, because tbe tourists would have picked all the Edelweiss within reach on both sides of the road, and he must scramble to places they bad not ransacked, but he would notgo into any danger; he would keep bis eye on the Hospice, or at least, the road. Along the road he trudged In his heavy boots till he came to a great weather-beaten crucifix, that marked the beginning of the descent on the Italian side. Tbe cross was painted dull red, but the paint had peeled away in patches, blistered j frost or sun. Philip looked up wonderingly at it. How out of place it seemed there, in that wilderness of bare rock and pure snowl He seemed to be in the midst ot a pri meval world, which bad not yet begun to pro. duce green trees and herbs, the fowl and living beasts all around was utter silence, the world around was lifeless. The sun was behind the great wall of snowy glacier mountains, and the vapor was collected like smoke on Its bead. Rio, 18K20c: prime Bio. 18c; fair Bio, 17018c; old Government Java, 26c; Maracaibo, 2223c; Mocha, 2723c; Santos, 1922c: Caracas 2022c: peaberry, Bio, 2123c; La Guayra, 21 J2i. Boasted (In papers) StandardTbrands,21c: high grades 232oc; old Government Java, bulk. SmSHic; Maracaibo, .2326c; Santos. lQK21ci peaberry, 24c; peaherry, choice Bio. 23c: prime Rio, 20c; good Bio, 20c; ordi nary, 19Kc. Spices (whole) Cloves, 2125c; allspice, 9c; cassia, 89c; pepper, 19c: nutmeg; 7080c. Petroleum (jobbers' prices) llu test,7c; Ohio, 120, 8Uc; headlight. 150. 8Jc; water white, 10c; globe, 12c; elaine, 15c; carnadine, llc; royaline. 14c. bYRUPS Corn syrups, 2629c; choice sugar syrups, 33S33c: prime sugar syrup, 3033c; strictly prime. 8335c: new maple syrup, 90c N. O. Molasses Fancv. 4Sc: choice. 46c: me dium, 43c; mixed, 4042c Soda Bi-carb in kegs.34c; bi-carb in Js, 5c; bi-carb, assorted packages. 5(6c; sal soda in kegs, lJic: do granulated. 2c Candles Star, full weight, 9c; stearine, fl set, 8Jc; parafflne, ll12c Bice Head. Carolina, 77c: choice, 6Ji 7c; prime, 5K6Jic: Louisiana, o6Kc Starcu VearL 3c: cornstarch, 5k7c; gloss starch, 5J7c Foreion Fruits Layer raisins, J2 65; Lon don layers, S3 10; California London layers, $2 50; Muscatels, S2 25: California Muscatels, SI 85; Valencia, new. 67c; Ondara Valencia, 768c; sultana, 8c; currants, new, 45c; Turkey prunes, new, 45c; French prunes, 813c; Salonlca prunes, in 2-ft packages, 8c; cocoanuts. -jfl 100, SS 00; almonds, Lan per ft, 20c; do Ivica, 19c; do shelled, 40c; walnuts, nap.. 1215c; Sicily filberts, 12c: Smyrna figs. 12 16c; new dates, 56c; Brazil nuts, 10c; pecan-, ll15c; citron, per ft, 2122c; lemon peel, per ft, 1314c; orange peel, 12c Dried Fruits Apples, sliced, per ft, 6c: apples, evaporated, 6466c; apricots, Califor nia, evaporated, 15lbc; peaches, evaporated, pared, 2223c;-peacbes, California, evaporated, unpared, 10!2Xc; cherries, pitted, 2122c; cherries, unpitted, 66c; raspberries, evapor ated, 2424Kc; blackberries, 7KSc; huckle berries. 10l2c Sugars Cubes, 10V10c; powdered, 10U 10JsC; granulated, 9c: confectioners' A.9 9c; standard A. 9V&;softwhites99c; yel low, choice, &39Kc; yellow, good, SJ43S$c; yellow, fair, 8c: yellow, dark, 7c Pickles Medium, bbis (1,200), S4 50; medi um, halt bbls (600), S2 75. Salt No. 1. f) bbl. 95c; No. lex. V 1M. SI 05; dairy, V bbl, SI 20; coarse crystal. 1 bbl, SI 20; HIgglns' Eureka, 4-bu sacks, S2 bO; Higgins' Eureka, 16-14 ft pockets, S3 00. Canned Goods Standard peaches SI SO 1 90: 2ds SI S01 35; extra peaches SI 601 00; pie peaches 00c; finest corn, Sll 60; Hid. Co. corn. 7090c; red cherries 90cSl; Lima beans SI 10: soaked dn, 85c: string do do, 7585c; mar rowfat peas. Jl lol 15: snaked peas, 7075c; pineapples $1 401 50; Bahama do, S2 75: dam son plums 95c: greengages, SI 25; egg plum?, (2; California, pears S250; do greengages, S2: do rKK 1'iuujB, e; ejk ra wuiie cuernea, 9 uu; reu Cherries, 2 ft-. 90c; raspberries, SI 4001 50; strawberries SI 10; gooseberries, Jl 301 40; tomatoes 82K92c; salmon, 1-ft, 51 752 10: blackberries. Sue; succotash 2 ft cans snaked. 99c: do green, 2 fts SI 251 60: corn beef, 2-ft cans 51 75: 14-ft rans SI3 60; baked beans, SI 4ol 60; lobster, 1-ft. SI 751 SO; mackerel, 1-ft cans, broiled. SI 60; sardines, domestics Ks S4 15 4 60: sardines domestic J4s S8 258 60; sar dines, imported, t. SU 6012 60; sardines im ported, Us. $18; sardines mustard, 54; sardines, spiced, SJ 25. Fish Extra No. 1 bloater mackerel. $30 bbl.; extra No. 1 do. mess S40; extra No. 1 mackerel, shore, S32: extra No. 1 do, messed. S56: No. 2 shorn mackerel, 124. Codfish Whole pollock, 4KC fl ft; do medium, George's cod, be: do large, 7c; boneless hake, in strips 6c; do George's cod in blocks GKS'Kc Herring Bound shore. So 00 W bbl: split, 57 00: lake, 52 50 9 100-ft bait bbL White fisb. J7 DC M 100 ft half bbl. Lake trout, So 50 fl halt bbL Finnan haddock. 10c ft. Iceland halibut, ISc W ft. Pickerel. K barrel, 12 00; V barrel, SI 10; Potomac herring, $5 00 barrel. S2 60 ? K barrel. Buckwheat Flour 22Jic ft. Oatmeal S6 308 60 fl bbl. Miners' Oil No. 1 winter strained, 5S60c f) gallon. Lard oil, 75c . Grain, Flour and Feed. Total receipts as bulletined at the Grain Ex change, 24 cars By Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 3 cars of corn. 9 of oats 2 of hay, 1 of flour, 1 of wheat. By Pittsburg. Cincinnati and St Louis 1 car of mlllf eed, 8 of nats By Baltimore and Ohio, 1 car of oats, 1 of flour. By Pittsburg and Lake Erie, I car of flour and foSd, 2 cars of flour. Sales on call: 1 car fine winter wheat bran. Sll 50, 6 days, Pennsylvania lines; 1 car bran and middlings, bran, 112; mid dlings, SIS, Pennsylvania lines. Shell corn and oats are a shade weak'er than for several days owing to liberal receipts. Ear corn is scarce and In demand at outside quotations Beceipts bulletined for tbe week were 151 cars against 121 last wMk and 159 tb e previous week. so that the prospect seemed to he that of a world such as existed when there was light but the sun was uncreate. And. in the center of this inchoate, unvitalized world, stood tho cru cifix. The mountains looked down on it, the glaciers frowned on it, as a thing of to-day, as though they said, "We were before ever you were dreamed of, and we shall bo long after mankind has ceased to believe In self-devotion. and.has come to laugh at every creed save the idolatry of self." Then Philip diverged from the road, and began to climb. There was a valley opening here from the highest peaks, down which a little rill fell: and on the flank ot the mount ain which faced the south there was compara tively little snow, and Philip saw tracts of moss and herbage. That would bo tbe garden of tbe Edelweiss; there be mnst search, and he would find the desired flower wlthont serious trouble. He as surprised to find tbe distances greater than they appeared. In that highly rarefied and clear air things far off appeared close, and dimensions as well as distances were deceptive. He found green carpets of dwarf campion, studded with pink flower, dense as moss; And in the bogs soldanella shaking their delicately fringed purple bells hut no Edelweiss. Dis appointed in his search on tbe slope which had promised, be crossed the brook and crept along the flank of-tbe opposite mountain: ho would turn its shoulder and get to the side well ex posed to tbe sun; that which he had just ex plored was, he now perceived, shut off from all but vertical rays by the mountain ridge south of it. He groped and scrambled, turned back, went higher, had long lost sight of tbe Hospice, had not, indeed, rembembered to look for it. I when suddenly he was enveloped in dense white fog. He could, however, see tbe sun tbrough it like a copper ball, but only for a minute, and then it sank behind a ridge, at least so he supposed, for it was extinguished gradually. He must now retrace his steps. He dare not advance; he thought he eould find his way back. He remembered several land marksa rock, on the top of which was some dwarf shrub, like a wig worn by an bid fellow he knew at Nottingham, and a furrow which, if be followed it, mnst lead him to tbe brook. But he soon found that be bad lost all sense of direction; the disappearance of the sun had taken from him the only clew as to the points of the compass. He was lost. He sat down for a moment and wiped his face: the water was streaming off it. He was cot as yet alarmed, only vexed vexed especially at his having made this expedition in vain. He would have to return without the Edelweiss. "That is old Jarvis' bead with the wig thrust back I" he said, as a nodule of Tolled rock ap peared through tbe mist. But when be took a second look at it he doubted. "I wish I bad brought a whisky flask with me," he muttered. "I am beginning to feel an ache In my muscles." He stumbled on, and cow. to his alarm, saw that the darkness was closing in rapidly. He had not considered, when he started, that in tbe south of Europe there is co twilight, and that niht comes after day without hours of grace. Now it flashed upon him that what tbe guide had meant when indicating the mountain top wreathed in vapor was not that Edelweiss grew there, hut that the weather was going to change, or the fog to descend. He hurried ou, but did not know in what direction he was going. Ho was on a steep slope of snow that stretched before him apparently Interminably, lost Itself in vapor and curled ever and en veloped him as In an anple-ple bed, a cold, sheet of white below, before, above , behind. And, at that moment, be saw on tbe rock above him, almost within reach. Ttha white, starry, nodding bead of an Edelweiss; the wooly flower was burdened with the moisture that had condensed on it from the fog, and was hanging over the stone to shake itself free. With an exclamation of satisfaction Fhlllp sprang up the slope, caught the rock with tbe hook of his stick, and tore the Edelweiss away. Had tbe crook of his stick been what it pro fessed to be a chamois' born, he would have been safe, it would have sustained his weight; but as it was only bone, and the curve came across tbe grain, it snapped, and Philip shot down the snowy declivity. He- still grasped the tuft of Edelweiss: he thrust his stick into the snow to arrest his descent, he tore up the snow, twisted the stick in his hand, and shot Wheat Jobbing prices No. 2 red, 9293c: JNo. 3red,87S8c Corn No. 2 yellow ear, 4616Kc: high mixed ear. 4546Kc; No. 2 yellow, shelled, 4243c; high mixed, shelled, 4042c; mixed, shelled, 40041c OATS No. 2 white, 3434Kc; extra. No. 3. 33333c; No. 3 white, 3u31c; No. 2 mixed oats 2284c Bye No. 1 Pennsylvania and Ohio, 6152c; No. 1 Western. 4849c Flour Jobbing prices Fancy winter and spring patents. So 756 25: winter straight. S5 005 25; clear winter, S4 755 00: straight XXXX bakers', S4 254 50. Bye flour, S3 50 400. Millfeed Middlings, fine white. $15 00 15 60 f ton: brown middlings, Sll 50 12 50: win ter wheat bran. $12 2512 60; chop leed, $15 00 616 00. Hay Baled timothy, choice. S14 00; No. 1 do, $13 00 13 60; No. 2 do, Sll 50 12 50; loose, from wagon, S14 00 15 00: No. 1 upland prairie, S10 60 U 00; No. 2, $7 608 00; packing do, $5 50 6 50. Straw Oats $7 60; wheat and rye straw, $7 007 508 00. Provisions. Sugar-cured hams large, HKc: sugar-cured bams medium, 12c; sugar-cured hams, small, 12c; sugar-cured breakfast bacon, 10c; sugar cured shoulders, 7c; sugar-cured boneless shoulders, 9c; sugar-cured California hams, 8Kc; sugar-cured dried beef flats, 9c; sngar cured dried beef sets 10c; sugar-cured dried beef rounds 12c; bacon shoulders, 7c: bacon clear sides, 8c: bacon clear bellies, Sc; dry salt shoulders 6c; dry salt clear sides, 7c Mess pork, heavv. $14 00; mess pork, lamily, $14 50. Lard Befined In tierces 6Kc; halt barrels, 7c: 60-ft tuns, 7c: 20-ft palls, 1o; 50-ft tin cans 6c; 3-ft tin pails, 7Kc; 6-ft tin pills Te; 10-ft tin pails, c;5-ft tin pails. 7c; 10-ft tin pails lyic Smoked sausage, long, 5c; large, 6c Fresh pork links, 9c Boneless hams, 10c Pigs feet, hall barrel, $3 50; quarter barrel, $2 00. Dressed Sleot. Armour Sc Co. furnished tbe following prices on dressed meats: Beef carcasses, 4-50 to 650 fts,5Kc;650 to 650fis6Vc; 630 to 750tts,6Kc Sheep, 8c fl ft. Lambs, 10c fl ft. Hogs $Mc Fresh pork loins, 8c MAEKETS BY WISE. Wheat Slronc nt Iho Start, Bat Breaks Under the Influence ofLarge Receipts Other Commodities Moving Slowly, and Featureless. Chicago There was fairly good trad ing in wheat Saturday, but most of the busi ness was transacted early in tbe session. At the start a feeling of firmness existed, but this gave place to a weak and panicky feeling. The opening was strong, and prices after some slight fluctuations were advanced K3c in fluenced by some firm cables Wet weather in England and a rumor tbrough private sources that late cables noted in a stronger tone than the public ones Liverpool was quoted firm and slightly higher, bnt public London cables quoted cargoes on passage as easier, and ne glected, and this created suspicion that the late cables might have been manufactured nearer home. But tbe advance was only temporary, for selling soon started in. which soon caused a steady shrinkage in prices and developed a de cidedly weak feeling by the time the estimated receipts for Monday were made It Is esti mated 101 cars of wheat would be received on Monday, of which S3 would be new and 63 new No. 2. It was reported that St. Louis would show up with 300,000 bushels wheat on Monday, and the increasing receipts was the principal factor of the market. Selling became gen eral, and prices declined 2c for July and lc for the deferred futures, and closed 2c lower for July and &'ip lower for the other futures than yesterday. A prominent local tradesman was reported as being a free seller. Corn ruled rather quiet the greater part ot the session, though there were periods of mod erate activity. The feeling was rather easier and slightly lower prices were established, fine weather for the growing crop and the dcline in wheat being depressing Influences and had a tendency to increase offerings The market opened a; yesterday's closing prices and sold off gradually c remained quiet and inacttve, changing but little and closed KS$c lower tban yesterday. In on an active business transpired with a narrow range ot prices. Trading was only moderate In mess pork. Opening ratei wre made at 5c decline, but an advance ot 12gl5a was established with fair buying. Later tbe market ruled higher and prices receded 510c and closed quiet. Bather a quiet and firm feeling prevailed in the lard market and change were slight. further down shot instantaneously out of the fog into dusk, in which everything was dis tinct, and below he saw a great sweep of snow liken sheet. He looked into it as Sancho Panza into that in which he was being tossed. He drove his heels into the snow, bis elbows, his stick, to retard his descent, and suddenly dropped. Then found himself on rubble, still sliding, and brought up with a jerk by a rock. For a few minutes Philip was unconscious. He was aware of a shock, a slide, darkness and noise, that was all. But where was he? He had vanished from tbe face ot tbe earth, gone through the surface of snow into a depth beneath. A field of snow had filled the bottom of a valley, and the river ran beneath in a ravine. Nothing could be seen of tbe cleft, nothing of the rlrer. the smooth sheet ot snow hid both; but the force of Philip's descent bad broken through tbat portion ot tbe cover ing where it was thinnest, near the rock and rubble, he bad gone through, and was buried alive. Beneath him. about him, was darkness, pitch darkness; only above could he see the hole tbrough which he had fallen, looking, like a silver-gray disc The air about him was filled with thunder, tbe pulsating thunder such as be had heard at the falLof tbe Reuss at the Devil's Bridge, such as he had heard that very day where the river plunged over a wall of rock lu tbe gorge above Hospenthal. Tbe air more over was as full of water here beneath as it had been above in the f og,but the particles here were, larger. This was the spray cast up by the rag ing, leaping, headlong water in the abyss. How far down was it to that torrent? Eye could not penetrate, ear could not tell. The vault of snow overhead reverberated with tbe boom of the water, and cast It back Into the gulf as it cast back the upthrown spray. He could see no water, be could see nothing save the gap overhead. What was he to do? His arms were heavy and numbed with cold. He cautiously lifted one and found that the snow had been driven, even rammed, hard up- tbe sleeve by bis de scent. He was safe where be lodged, on rock, and he shook ont the snow from one sleeve and then the other. In doing this be found the bunch ot Edelweiss. He did not see it, be felt it up his sleeve; it had been carried there by tbe snow. He did not throw it away, he left it where it was. What was he to do? His situa tion was precarious. He might turn giddy and fall over. That terrible fascination there Is in an abyss might lay bold of him and draw him down. Artemisia had spoken of that fasci nation, the fascination of despair. Now he felt it He tried to scramble up, but the sbale slipped away beneath his feet, and be was fain, in an agony of terror, to recover his former place on firm rock. It was not practicable to ascend. He leaned back against the stones, that dripped and ran with water, the melting of the snow overhead, tbe condensation of tbe foam from the river beneath. Tbe water con densed also on his forehead and ran off his brows water cold as ice. Where his fingers worked hollows in the loose soil the water set tled and soaked his fingers and turned them dead with cold. Was it tbat there was rhythm in the fall of tbe water, or was it that his pulses beat in his ear and gave rhythm to the continuous thun der? He could not tell. He heard the throb of sound, or it seemed to him to be the rattle of tbe machinery ot his mill at Mergatroyd multiplied to infinity. ' His feet had glowed -with the exercise, but now they began gradually to lose heat, and turn stone cold. In time they would cease to have feeling In them, then in numbness and weariness his knees would buckle under him, and he would shoot headlong, like a diver. Into the black void. How far was it to tbe water to death he wondered. Would be feel be conscious of tbe shock over tbe edge before he went into the water, or crash with his head against a rock? He had beard a fellow clerk say that as he was drowning the whole of bis past life rushed before his eyes and spread itself out as a panorama, a succession of scenes. In a moment of time, 20 years nnfolded leisurely in one second, displaying every inci dent, not crowded, but in sequence, and all ar ticulate. Would It be so as he went over tbe edge, in the spji of time between tbe rocks on which he stood and the clash and extinction below? His heart grew faint; and be felt in him the qualm that a bad sailor knows as the vessel plunges into a deep sea trough. But surely be would be sought by the people at the inn. Certainly he would be soueht. bnt in what direction would they look for him? How trace him in tbe mist? How suppose he was below the surface of the smooth quilt of Very little interest was manitested in the market for short rib sides and the feeling was steady. Changes in prices very slight. The leading futures ranged as follows: Wheat No. 2 July, 74797oK76Kc: August, 77K77375K75?bC; September. 77 77H75&75Ji;c; December, 78J7977 77Jc Corn Nc 2 Ancnst, 35KS533JSS5Kc; September. 3J5d3535Jge35Kc; October, 35?i 635K35e3Sic Oats No. 2, August, 2221Jc: September. 21K22215i21J.C .oiess ruBK, per uui. august, ill liii siy, U 2011 30; September, Sll 25U 4011 25 11 30; October, $10 4010 4510 32M10 45. Lard, per 100 fts August. S6" 256 27K 6 256 27K; September. S6 37J$66 37j6 32V 6 37Kt October, $6 356 37Ktf 32Jio 37M. bhokt miis. per im zs Aucust, so wy 5 725 705 70; September. $5 7505 755 72 6 75. Cash quotations were as follows: Flonr dull and unchanged. No. 2 spring wheat. T!Tic; No. 3 spring wheat. 7677c: No. 2 red, 7778sc No. 2 corn. 35Kc A o. 2 oats 22ffi22Jc No. 2 rye 43c No. 2 barley nominal. No. 1 flax seed. SI 31. Prime tlmnthv seed, SI 41. Mess pork, per barrel, Sll 3C11 35. Lard, per 100 Sounds, S6 25. Short ribs, sides (loose), S3 70. iry salted shoulders (boxed), S5 2o5 37. Short clear sides (boxed), 56 006 12. Sugars unchanged. Receipts Flonr. 7 000 . barrels: wheat, 18,000 bushels: corn. 278.000 bushels: oats, 126,000 bushels: rye. 6,000 bushels: barley, none Shipments Flour. 6,000 barrels; wbeat, 52.000 bushels; com. 294.000 bushels: oats, 205,000 bushels; rye, 2,000 busnels; barley. 1,000 bushels. On tbe Produce Exchange to-day the butter market was quiet and unchanged. Eggs quiet atllX12c New York Flour moderately active and weak. Wheat Spot dull and stronger; options dull: c higher on July; c up on others, and steady. Byeqniet. Barley malt dull. Corn Spot steady and quiet; options dull and firm. Oats Spot dull and steady; options firmer and quiet. Hay steady and quiet: shipping, 60 65c; good to choice, 7590c Hops steady and quiet. Coffee Options opened quiet and unchanged at 10 points down; closed firm on December; others irregular and unchanged at 5 points up; sales, 38,250 big including July, 14.35iS14.40c; August, I4.4014.50c; September, 14.5014.65c; October, U4514.i0c; No ember. K6314.70c: December, 14.60 14.70c: January, 14 6514.75c; February. It6014.70c: March. 14.b514.70c: May. 14.70c; spot Bio strong; fair cargoes, 17c Sugar Baw depressed and wholly nominal: fair refined abont c: centrifugals 96 test, 8c: refined Suiet and steady. Molasses Foreign dull; New rleans dull: open kettle, good to fancy. 28 46c Bice steady and quiet; domestic, 46c; Japan, 45c Cottonseed oil dull and weak; crude, 30c; yellow, 4346c Tallow strong, liosin quiet and steady: strained, common to good. SI 105)1 12. Turpentine steady and quiet at 3838c Eggs weak and qniet; west ern, njt&'njic: receipts, z,uu pacsages. rone qniet. Mess. S1313 25: extra prime. Sll 25 11 50. Cutmeats steady; pickled bellies, 12 pounds 7c; pickled hams ll?ic; pickled shoul ders, 5c: middles dull; clear, 6.40c Lard firmer and quiet; sales, western steam, S6 62: city, S6 15: August. S636 64. closing at $664: September. $6 72; October. $6 71: January. $6 36 66 40. Butter easy and in moderate demand: western dairv. 1013c: do. creamery, 1216c; do. factorv. 813c Cheese steady and quiet, western. 03i7Jc St. Louis Flour quiet and easy and un changed. Wheat The opening figure for op tions was weak and JiKc advance, selling letting np and buying improving. After ad vancing iic, itturnedweak again and broke rapidly until Klc was lost, subsequently showing very llttlo change and closing weak and c below yesterday; No. 2 red, cash, 72c; Jnlv. 7272c. closing at 7272Kc; August, 7272c closlncat 72ki72W(r bid; Septem ber, 73fii74!4c, closing at 73j,673Kc: Decem ber. 76Ji77Xc, closing at "6&C Corn lower and general advices were weaker; wbeat being lower and the weather favorable had a bearish effect; No. 2 cash. 33 asked: July,S2K33c, closing at 3232c asked; Au gust, 8232c, closing at 32c: September, 32g33c, closing at 32K32c bid. Oats firm; No. 2 cash, 25c: July, 22c; August. 21c bid; May 25,c. itye neglected; No. 2, 41c. Flax seed SI 65 best bid for new crop. Baltimore Wheat Western weak; No. 2 winter red. spot, 86c; Jnlv. S484c; August, 81V82c; September. 8182c; December. 8454 84c Corn Western dull and steady;mlxed, spot and July, 4242c: August, 4242Jc; September, 4242c; steamer, 40c. Oats very firm; Westorn wnite, 3334c Provisions steady at a decline. Butter dull. Egg-i steady at 1213c Other quotations unchanged. Cincinnati Flonr easier. Wheat In fair demand snd lower: No. 2 red. TSasOc: receims. 14,000 bushels; shipments 5.000 bushels Corn unsettled; No. 2 mixed. 3S39c Oats strong. Bye dull; No.2,47c Pork dull at Sll 75. Lard quiet at S6 056 10. Bulkmcats firm. Bacon quiet. Butter quiet Sugar steady. Eggs weak. Cheese steady. Milwaukee Flour inactive. Wheat easy: cash. 76Jc: September, 75JgC Corn steady; No. 3, Sbc Oats quiet: No. 2 white, 2728c Bye easier; No. 2. 43c Barley quiet. Provisions Pork, $11 2a Lard, IS 2a Cheese Steady; Cheddars, 7g8c snow in the Val Tremola. sunk out of sight, hanging over a boiling torrent? And now down past Philip ran a thread of silver: it startled him. and he looked np the line to see glimpse of tbe ruooi appear above tbe hole through ubicbhe bad fallen. The fog must have cleared away, or be clinging partially to certain mountain tops It tbe moon were clear, then the search for him could be pro-ecu ted with some chance of success. But Philip was not over-confldenr. His powers of endur ance were ebbing. He raised bis feet and stamped on the rock; he could feel the shoes In bis joints bnt not in bis feet they were dead. His bands were stiff. He pnt his fingers Into his mouth, but this only momentarily restored vitality. After tbe feeling had gone the in os cular power wonld become paralyzed. He wa not hungry, but squeamish. He looked again at the moon.and cuntlnued watching it eagerly it slid forward and shone full through tha window of bis dungeon. The light fell oa rocky point and rill of leaping water, bnt could not illumine the abyss below, out of which rose the voices and tbunderings the voices ot death, the thnndprings precedinci judgment. And now tbe white ray of the moon smote down Into the golf below bis feet and disclosed a shoot of the purest, most sparkling sliver, the leaping torrent as It danced over a ledge inio utter darkness, into which no maonray could dive. Suddenly from above a mass of snow de tached itself and fell past him, a mass so big that had it smitten him It would have carried him down with it. The side of tbe hole in tbe snow-dome grazed the moon and ate more and still more out of It. Philip looked with fear be felt tbat when tbe whole of tbe moon had passed beyond tbat opening, and not another ray fell into it, when again the darkness of that vault would become ntter, hope would die away from bis heart, and he must fall. But as he stood looking up. watching the slip ping anay of the moon, he saw sharp cut against it a black something, and heard, above tbe roar of the water, the discordant sounds of a bark. He was found; found by one ot the Hospice dogs The first giddiness of renewed hope almost overcame blm. He trembled as In a tit, and his knees bent so that only by a snpreme effort of the will could he brace them again. Me be lieved be heard shouts, but was uncertain. What followed remained ever after confused In bis memory. He heard some Italian words in his ear, saw or felt someone by him, was grasped, a rope fastened round him, be heard himself encouraged to make an effort, tried to scramble, helped by the rope, broke through the snow, was in the upper world again, was surrounded, had brandy poured down his throat. Then he was seized by the hand and shaken. "Old fellow I Phil I Ton my word you have given us a turn. We have been hunting you everywhere." "Lambert" "Yes Phil, and who'd have thought to find you trapped under tbe snowT" The men of the party urged immediate move ment to restore circulation. Philip's hand, when dropped by Lambert, was seized again and held tightly, but he had lost feeling in It, Nnr could he see clearly, he was dazzled by the light tbe brilliance of tbe moon and the glare of the snow after the darkness below. "Who is that laughingf he asked, suddenly. "Oh Miss Durham." answered Lambert. "And who is that crying?" A whisper in bis ear "It Is I Salome." (To be Continued Next Monday.) IilT STOCK MAEKETS. Condition of the Market at tbe EaatZJBertr Stock Tarda. Office of Pittsdurq Dispatch, i Saturday. July 13. 18S9. ( CATTLE Beceipts 200 head; shipments 200 bead; market nothing doing; all through con signments; 1 car of cattle shipped to New York to-day. Hoos Receipts. 1,700 head: shipments, 1,900 head; market fair; Yorkers, $4 S04 90; Fbila delphias, $4 654 75: heavies, $1 504 60; 5 cars of hogsshipued to New York to-day. Siieep Receipts. 1.400 bead; shipments 1,600 bead; market slow and a shade lower than yes terday's prices Br TelecraDh. St. Louis Cattle Beceipts, 100 head: ship ments. 800; market steady; ebole heavv native steers S3 704 25: fair to eod do, $3 0C3 90; stockers and feeders, fair to goou. S2 20ii3 10: rangers, corn fed. S2 s03 50; grass fed. S2 00 3 10. Hogs Beceipts 1,200 head: shipments, 1.6X0 head: market strong; choice heavy and butchers' selections. $4 304 40; packing, me dium to prime. S4 204 35; light grades ordi nary to best, $4 404 50. bheep Receipts. 200 head; shipments, 1,100 bead; market steady: fair to choice, S3 204 60. CniCAOO Cattle Kecelnts, 3,000 head; ship ments. 1.000 head; market active; beeves, S4 004 25; stockers and feeders, S2 25Q3 30; cows bulls and mixed,Sl 603 10: Texas cattle Beceipts 2.500 head; slow at SI 75350. Hogs i Beceipts 10,000 head; shipments, 4,000 head; market strong; mixed, S4 15: heavy. S4 20 4 30: light, $4 2o4 63; skips S3 504 4a Sheen Beceipts 4,000 head: shipments. 500 bead; market steady: natives S3 505 10: westerns. S3 404 00;Texanst3 25&4 10; lambs S4 506 25. Cincinnati Hogs weaker: common and light, S3 654 60; packing and butchers, S4 25 4 40; receipts, LUX) beau; shipments, 780 head. Movements of Specie. New York, July 13. The exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $109,631, of which $1,590,635 was in gold and $318,996 silver. Of the toiat exports $1,533, 704 in gold and $311,000 silver went to Europe, $1,532,221 in gold being consigned direct to Paris and S51.931 gold and $7,996 silver went to South America. The imports of specie for tho weekamoun'pil to $18,374, of which $10,777 wa gold and $7,597 silver. Drjooods Market. New York, July 13. The market to-day was unchanged, except that print cloths are quoted by manufacturers l-10c lower, namely. 31 5-16c for 64x64 cloth. Cotton goods particularly bleached, are reported scarce, and they are un- der a very firm tone. Business in woolens was light, but considerable trade Is looked for next week. Agents are delivering contract good, ahead of time on urgent demand. Mlnins Stock. New York. July 13. Bodie. 110; Caledonia, a H.. COO; (.hollar, 150; Crown Point, 215; Con solidated California and Virginia. 737; Com monwealth. 340: Deadwood Territnrv. 110; Eureka Consolidated, 130: El Crista 125; Gould A Curry, ISO; Hale A Norcross 2S5; Homestake, 850: Iron Silver. 175; Mexican. 280: North Belle Isle, 115: Ontario, 34.00; Ophir, 450; Sierra Nevada. 22q When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she ci led for Castoria, When she became Miss she clung to Castoria, -When she had Childrenhe gave them CastorU " ' ap9-77-MWFSu WHOLESALE HOUSE. JOSEPH HORNE & CO.,. Cor. Wood and Liberty Sts., Importers and Jobbers of Special offerings this week in SILKS, PLUSHES, DRESS GOODS, SATEENS, SEEESUOKEB, GLNGHAMS, PRINTS, and OHEVIOT&- For largest assortment and lowest prices call; and see us. 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